We musn't underestimate the appeal of image in politics. To many people Starmer looks far more familiarly and typically prime ministerial, like Blair or Cameron, than Miliband or Corbyn. (View Post)

Schooling is such a totemic and unsolved question in this country that I think that he knows that's just a totemic, symbolic answer nowadays - a centrist signal to cancel out his leftwing signal… (View Post)

Staking out the pragmatic position. This will be the Starmer playbook - both appeals to the left, such as in the video last night, and appeals to the pragmatising centre. Could work very well. (View Post)

Must have been on a scholarship, as I doubt his father's factory worker wages would have managed it. (View Post)

Running proxies there as the Iranians have been doing for 15 years. (View Post)